One of the things about adopting a reality-based politics, rather than a popularity-based politics, is that…

One of the things about adopting a reality-based politics, rather than a popularity-based politics, is that you see clearly how the hot air of all elected politicians and social media debates are irrelevant to what actually happens. Covid is a good example. /1

We debate lockdowns, we debate immunity. We debate everything. At the end of the day all of the debates are pointless. The virus will act a certain way, and that will have real-world consequences that our opinions have no bearing on at all. We don’t get to choose. /2

Lockdowns a good example. We debate whether to have them or not. But we don’t get to choose. A certain amount of control is needed of the virus, for society to function at all. The anti-State fanatics have everybody believing lockdowns are over. But the control never ended. /3

It can’t end, society won’t function. We’re all doing the control now, not the State. We’re funding it ourselves, like we increasingly fund all the things that were once public service functions, before the anti-State fanatics had their way. Zoom out from the hot air. /4

This pandemic is playing out in ways reality will determine. It won’t matter who says what or believes what, overlaid on top of it. Like some pathetic debating victory will mean anything to reality. You can argue all day about whether a stone will drop to the ground. /5

It’ll drop no matter who wins the debate. The only thing that the debates do determine in reality, is how many are maimed and die. To save lives, we need to stop the debates, to just treat the objective situation. But popularity politics has made that impossible. /end